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Mount Sunapee Comments Flooding In As Deadline Nears

Opponents and supporters of the proposed expansion to the Mount Sunapee Ski Resort are pushing to have their say one last time before a state deadline for comments.

The Friends of Mount Sunapee and the Sierra Club teamed up for a campaign that gathered over 1,900 comments. These opponents say they will fight the expansion – which would add a new lodge, lift, and trails on the western side of the mountain – every step of the way.

"We will not be silent, we will not go away, we will not allow one of the crown jewels of our state park system to be degraded by resort development to facilitate financial gain for a select few," says Gary Stansfield, of Goshen. 

Supporters with the Citizens for Mount Sunapee’s Future, say they will deliver over three hundred hand-signed letters tomorrow.

"I hope the elected officials have the courage to move the project forward and bring it before governor and council for a decision," Gerald Coogan, from New London, who favors expansion.

The commissioner of DRED, Jeffrey Rose, has left the deadline for any decision on the expansion wide open. 

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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